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Test 1 · ★ · Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs

"Mum's feeling a bit delicate this morning, keep it down." Why should the kids be quiet?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum, kids · What happens: feel, keep down, be · To what, where: bit

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 30 «Soft words for hard things: drinking and drugs» of the euphemisms course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

Sentence 1: "Mum's feeling a bit delicate this morning, keep it down."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 feeling	punct
2	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feeling	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 feeling	aux
4	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 delicate	obl:unmarked
7	delicate	delicate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 morning	amod
8	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 morning	det
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 feeling	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 keep	punct
11	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 feeling	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 keep	obj
13	down	down	ADP	_	11 keep	compound:prt
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 feeling	punct
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 feeling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel in a quote	present · progressive	Mum				morning		vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	keep down in a quote	infinitive	Mum not said here	bit					vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Sentence 2: Why should the kids be quiet?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 quiet	advmod
2	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 quiet	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kids	det
4	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 quiet	nsubj
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 quiet	cop
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 quiet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	should	the kids					quiet property	tree rules

The options

Option 1

Mum has a cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	nsubj
2	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 cold	det
4	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 has	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	Mum	a cold					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cold=Patient

Option 2

Mum is sewing lace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sewing	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sewing	aux
3	sewing	sew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	lace	lace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sewing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sew	present · progressive	Mum	lace					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lace=Product

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Mum is reading

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reading	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 reading	aux
3	reading	read	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	read	present · progressive	Mum						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Mum is hungover

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 hungover	cop
3	hungover	hungover	X	Foreign=Yes	1 Mum	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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